Veena Shahi is an Indian politician. She defeated

Brishin Patel Brishin Patel is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from the Siwan in Bihar as a member of the Janata Dal. He was Minister of Education and Transport in Nitish Kumar cabinet. He jo ...

Janata Dal (United) Janata Dal (United) ("People’s Party (United)”) abbreviated as JD(U) is an Indian political party with political presence mainly in eastern and north-eastern India. JD(U) is recognised as a state party in the states of Bihar , Arunachal Pra ...

, or JD(U), in 2000 in the

Bihar Legislative Assembly The Bihar Legislative Assembly, also known as the Bihar Vidhan Sabha, is the lower house of the Bihar Legislature where the first elections were held in 1952. The total strength of membership in the Assembly was 331, including one nominated m ...

election at Vaishali. She was also the Co-Operative minister in Third Rabri Devi ministry. She is the widow of Hemant Kumar Shahi (son of veteran

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party leader

Laliteshwar Prasad Shahi Laliteshwar Prasad Shahi (1 October 1920 – 9 June 2018) was an Indian politician of Indian National Congress from Bihar. He was born on 1 October 1920 to Yogendra Prasad Shahi and his wife. He had three brothers, Nanki Prasad Shahi, Bhuvneshwa ...

). Veena Shahi was born on 5 January 1953, in

Sitamarhi Sitamarhi is an Indian city and the district headquarters of the Sitamarhi district in the Mithila region of Bihar and is a part of the Tirhut Division. It dates back to the time of Ramayana and is considered as the place where Janaka found Sit ...

, India. She was born into the Mahant family of Sitamarhi as the eldest daughter of the Late Mahant Raghunath Das and the Late Saraswati Devi. Shahi completed her schooling at Mount Carmel School,

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, where she excelled in academics and extracurricular activities. She later graduated with a

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in Political Science from

Patna Women's College Patna Women's College, established in 1940, is a women's college in Patna, Bihar. It is affiliated to Patna University, and offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in science, arts, commerce and vocational. Accreditation Patna Women's Co ...

. Shahi married Hemant Shahi, son of Congress leader Late

, in 1977. The couple started a successful

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company in 1982, which went on to become one of the biggest bus companies in Bihar, Shahi Tirupati. In March 1992, Shahi's husband Hemant was assassinated. After her husband's assassination, she won the by-election to replace him. In the 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Shahi contested and won the MLA election from Vaishali, Bihar, on a Congress ticket. Shahi has a daughter named Vidisha Shahi.

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